<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div></div><div><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>It is unfortunate that we are already coming up with excuses for why we cannot deliver on this but most unfortunate is that you of all people could thorugh such a large spanner into the works yet your product has received funding with little or not field testing.</div><div><br></div><div>We all buy tenders and spend many hours completing our responses yet we do not get paid for such activities, what is so difficult with making a pitch? I thought we are in the information age where a young graduate only needs a computer and internet connection to make it big.</div><div><br></div><div>Lets for once stop being typical Kenyans and think of Bill Gates walking into the IBM offices to sell
MS-DOS.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>PS. Another posting like this and I go off to freelance.com & partner with positive thinking developers, the world has become a village.</div> </div>Robert Yawe<br>KAY System Technologies Ltd<br>Phoenix House, 6th Floor<br>P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200<br>Kenya<br><br><div>Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696<div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Agosta Liko <agostal@gmail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tue, 21
September, 2010 14:38:37<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kictanet] Commodity Exchange System<br></font><br>Robert.<br><br>We usually don't get those contracts because the buying bodies prefer<br>to get software that's tried / tested / proven .... and rightly so.<br><br>The way I look at this - as a manager, if I was to choose between a<br>local vendor who would have to develop from scratch and a foreign<br>vendor whose solution is running lets say 30 clients .... I would pick<br>the foreign vendor 99 out of 100 times.<br><br>Its all about risk ... and as we all know "No one ever got fired for<br>buying IBM" ( <a href="http://bit.ly/amN6sl" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/amN6sl</a> )<br><br><br><br></div></div></div><div style="position:fixed"></div>
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